The Issue in Africa

Causes

When we talk about gender inequality, we talk about a different treatment between men and women in society. When they both play a different role in life, there is gender inequality. In the world, women is the one consider inferior, less tan men. This problema has different causes, such as bad mentality, education level, tradition and culture, religion and empowerment.

Bad Mentality

This is easy to explain: Society, in general (men and women themselves) think that women are inferior, weak and that there are some Jobs (as rule a company) for men and others (as being the housekeeper) by women.

Education Level

Lack of proper educations one of the major causes of gender inequality. This is because nobody can go far without adequate education level in the world of today. However, families tend to not care about girls' education because of bad mentality: they don't need to learn to be a housekeeper. Also, is a way to let women know since they are Little girls that they are inferior to men, it's a way to take them out power.

Tradition and Culture

The way of life of a particular ethnic group while tradition is the belief of such a society. Culture and traditions are one of the major reasons which makes female to be regarded as not important, in many African countries. Society is everything, and if society doesn't believe that women can do something, they don't do  it because society said it and they would be judged. Social pressure makes everything and people in societies believe some things and they usually don't change their minds.

Religion

Religión is part of culture. For all societies, it is very important, however, depending on the continent and the country, religión is a base in your life or is just in what you believe. And in religions, because of they antiquity, they also think in men as a superior of women.

Empowerment

Women lack enough empowerment in some parts of the world. Understanding the importance of empowerment will motivate women and curb the issue of gender inequality. Women feel like they don't have rights, that in this unfair world no one is going to help them. That they depend on men and that is not like that.

If a woman study, she can do exacly what a man can. And that is what the world, that Africa, needs to know.

https://www.womenunlimited.org/gender-inequality-and-its-causes/